Why the hate for wisdom?

[Jade]

We tried to put speedforce on moderated status, after logging into the temper tantrum he had on the forums a few nights ago, where he made several posts intentionally crossing the line. We honestly have a lot of patience for this behavior, because if you read through the thread, you can see a lot of heated emotions. However, he indeed used different words and tone to discuss these concepts than most of us. His reaction to being put on moderated status was to send multiple PMs to the moderators cussing them out, threatening them, and overall just having an absolute meltdown. We decided that, now that we saw what he thought was an acceptable way to treat people that unequivocally crossed the line, we should probably just ban his account. Before the account got deleted, he created an OP where he detailed (22+ reasons) why he believes he is Jesus.

Again, if you all want to make a forum to host these types of engagement, go for it. If you are feeling pity, there is an act of service you can take: Create a new forum, offer a home to the victims who have been deplatformed. Be the change you wish to see. We obviously all could use more spiritual groups to engage with, because many people seem frustrated with the limitations that Bring4th has. I'm seriously confused why nobody has done this yet, because it seems like a much easier solution. I know it's fun to articulate where others are in the wrong, but we're never going to be able to put in the energy to be a perfect moderating team, and we're not going to significantly change our policies any time soon. Speedforce is the second person that I know of in my time that we have banned. If one poster every two years is an egregious use of our power as moderators, then I guess I have to take that hit to my polarity and hopefully will be able to balance it in meditation. We will never make everyone happy as moderators, but we have to err on the side of protecting people from potential abuse, and drawing a line in the sand is required to do that.

I doubt speedforce is gone forever, let's be honest. It's not like we IP banned him or asked him not to come back. If he wants to try again to play nice, he's welcome! If his frustrated potty mouth takes over again, we'll have to act upon that as we see it.